Calcineurin inhibitors: Short-term friend, long-term foe?

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 209-211

  Matas, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN A; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALOPECIA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; GINGIVA HYPERTROPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CALCINEURIN; CYCLOSPORINE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960611035     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2011.77     Document Type: Review

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